Firebird

Firebird and fire bird may refer to:

Contents 1 Music 2 Folklore 3 Fiction 4 Software 5 Sport 6 Birds 7 Automobiles 8 Weapons 9 Aircraft

Music

• The Firebird, ballet for which Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) composed the music
• Firebird (band), late 1990s/2000s blues-based power trio
• The Firebirds, a rock and roll band from Bristol
• Firebird (trumpet), trumpet with valves and slide invented by Maynard Ferguson
• Gibson Firebird, solid-body electric guitar from the early 1960s
• Firebirds (album), a jazz album by Prince Lasha and Sonny Simmons

Folklore

• Bennu, Egyptian firebird
• Huma (mythology), Persian firebird
• Simurgh, Persian phoenix
• Phoenix (mythology), sacred firebird found in the mythologies of many cultures
• Firebird (Russian folklore) (Жар-Птица)

Fiction

• Firebirds (anthology), a collection of short stories for young adults by Firebird Books
• Firebird (Marvel Comics), character in Marvel Comics publications
• Firebird (Amalgam Comics), amalgamated character appearing in the Amalgam comic books jointly published by both DC and Marvel Comics
• Firebird (Tyers novel), a science fiction novel by Kathy Tyers
• Firebird (Lackey novel), a novel retelling the Russian folk tale, by Mercedes Lackey
• Fire Birds, a 1990 action film directed by David Green
• Firebird Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., launched January 2002

Software

• Firebird (database server), database management system forked from the open sources of InterBase from Borland
• Firebird, defunct games software label owned by Telecomsoft
• Hino Tori, computer game known as Firebird in Europe, developed by Konami, Japan in 1987
• Mozilla Firebird, former name of the Mozilla Firefox browser
• Firebird BBS, one of two main telnet-based systems developed in Taiwan
• Firebirds (computer game), computer game for the ZX Spectrum released in 1983
• Firebird (chess engine), open source software

Sport

• Albany Firebirds, American Arena Football team
• Indiana Firebirds, former Arena Football team
• Queensland Firebirds, Australian netball team based in Brisbane, Queensland
• UDC Firebirds, University of the District of Columbia Athletics program
• Wellington Firebirds, New Zealand First-Class cricket team based in Wellington
• Firebird International Raceway, dragstrip and motorsports park in Phoenix, Arizona

Birds

Various species with brilliant red or orange plumage:

• Scarlet Tanager
• Baltimore Oriole
• Vermilion Flycatcher

Automobiles

• Pontiac Firebird, American muscle car
• General Motors Firebird, series of concept cars

Weapons

• AAM-A-1 Firebird, an American air-to-air missile of the 1940s

Aircraft

• Northrop Grumman Firebird, a reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft developed by Northrop Grumman

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